James Bond 24 / 30 Sep 2014 Is Mark Strong in James Bond 24?

to social media, which shows the Bond star alongside British actor Mark Strong (Green Lantern, Kick-Ass, Sherlock Holmes). Does this mean Strong is in Bond 24?
Possibly, but it should be noted that Strong is close friends with Craig going back to their days of the UK television series Our Friends in the North. Craig is even the godfather of Strong's eldest son so perhaps it was just a case of buddies hanging out.

Strong (far L) with Craig (2nd from R) in Morocco.
However, Strong has repeatedly made his hopes of playing a Bond villain known in interviews over the last few years.
“The Bond villain would be the absolute pinnacle,” Strong told The Big Issue earlier this month. “They are almost as important as Bond himself because your hero is only as good as your villain so you have to have a good one for the hero to be truly heroic. I’m not ruling it out. We’ll just wait and see…”
Our calls to Strong's reps at CAA had not been returned by time of publish.
As Bond fan site MI6 points out, Strong had previously been under consideration for the villain role of Silva in Skyfall. Strong also did a very Bond villain-esque turn in a Jaguar commercial (seen below) opposite Marvel baddies Sir Ben Kingsley and Tom Hiddleston. Strong has a pair of espionage flicks coming up: Kingsman: The Secret Service and Grimsby.
Bond 24 starts principal photography December 6 and will shoot in the UK, Morocco, and Austria.

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Exclusive: Liberia’s president dismisses grim Ebola estimates

In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Wednesday blasted the US health agency and the World Health Organization (WHO) for their latest estimates on the expected number of new Ebola cases. 

The Liberian leader said that an estimate released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week was flat-out wrong.
The agency has warned that the number of Ebola cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone could explode to a staggering 1.4 million in January unless efforts are ramped up.
“Absolutely not!” Sirleaf told FRANCE 24’s Marc Perelman of the figures, adding that “even the WHO‘s initial projections that some 20,000 would likely die in the affected countries by January, even that is not going to happen.”
The WHO warned last week that there is a possibility that west Africa could see tens of thousands of new Ebola cases in the coming months.
“I am waiting for the next projections and I hope they will admit that they’ve just been simply wrong, that all of our countries are getting this thing under control,” she said, referring also to Guinea which is among the nations in West Africa that have been the hardest hit by the deadly virus.

Sirleaf: 'We see a stabilisation'

Ebola has so far infected 7, 178 people and killed more than 3,300, roughly half of whom have been in Liberia.
The WHO, which released the new figures on Wednesday, said that the total number of new cases had fallen for the second week in a row, but warned they were likely to be under-reported.
‘On the road to solving this’
In the interview, Sirleaf said that the outbreak is actually showing signs of stabilising.
“We are beginning to see a stabilisation… even in Monrovia which has been hit the hardest,” she said of Liberia’s capital, which is home to more than a third of the country’s population.
Sirleaf said there has been a marked slow-down in the number of people reporting to treatment centres, noting that this is a telling sign “that we are finally on the road to solving this”.
The outbreak, which started about six months ago, has overwhelmed the health systems in the affected African countries and left aid groups scrambling for resources.
The US, the EU and other nations have sent money, supplies and personnel to try to stop the virus from spreading further.
Sirleaf hailed the international response, even though it took a while before it got off the ground, she said.
“(Ebola) has never been part of our health concern. It took us a while to know it and it took the international community a while to recognise what it was,” she said.
“Initially, nobody thought about Ebola” when the first cases appeared, she said.

James Bond 24 / 1 Oct 2014 Rihanna Rumored for James Bond 24 Theme Song and Cameo

Rihanna, who made her big screen debut with Battleship in 2012, is apparently a big 007 fan and, according to this report, Eon wants her to sing the theme for the newest Bond movie as well as possibly cameo.

"Rihanna is a big fan of the Bond films and has always loved the idea of appearing in one," an unnamed source told The Sunday Mirror. "She didn't even need to think about it, she knows she wants to do it. She's really excited."
It's not unheard of for a musician to appear in and sing for a James Bond film. Madonna did both for 2002's Die Another Day, for instance. Meanwhile, Adele sang the theme for Skyfall, winning a Grammy and Oscar for her performance.
James Bond 24 begins production in December and will shoot in the UK, Morocco, and Austria. Rihanna will next be heard on the silver screen in DreamWorks' animated film Home in March.
Evan Campbell is a freelance news writer who streams games on his Twitch channel, talks about Nintendo weekly on the NF Show, and chats about movies and TV series on Twitter.

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